on 7-28-2008 12:10 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
I don't think most optical drive manufacturers embed serial numbers in their drives. Hard drives are different, as their testing process lets them change something like a serial number, but an optical drive would require a custom firmware to be created and then loaded to the drive. That would slow the process.On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Alex <ethericalzen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700 MHR <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? Thanks. mhrYou can try hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice You may need to run this as root. There is a field for Serial Number, but for my devices no serial number is provided. This may not help you, but it could work. Output from my system: [prata@crane ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 011, FwRev=E1.14, SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }.....other info is there but is not relevant.Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda), but the space for SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (CD-RW). . If you are lucky, on your box, it will give you the SN for the DVD burner. Lanny
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